I went to a conference for women entrepreneurs in New York today and had the privilege of meeting so many women entrepreneurs who had built successful business they had turned into million and billion dollar ventures. It could have been intimidating, but instead it was inspiring. One of those people in the room was Sarah…

You cannot say you want to make a strawberry tart and use rotten strawberries. That is what my neighbor said to me today when he invited me for tea. Maybe he thought of that because on the terrace around us there were lots of people having strawberry tarts, or maybe because aside from being a…

This year more than other years people I have met in other contexts and places over the last thirty years have made their way back into my life. The reason they do so varies from reaching out to say hello, to needing something, to coming through Paris and so many others I cannot remember and…

What is success? If anything has changed enormously about me over the years it is my definition of success. I am virtually unrecognizable. When I was young I though it was the people everyone knew, fame. College taught me that it was rich and important people. And then I thought it was making everyone jealous…

I can’t believe that I’m launching, I’m writing and I’m doing this finally. It took me a long time and I had to fight against every ounce of procrastination in my body to write this. Every day I have found an amazing excuse for not doing it even if I wanted to. I’m cutting sugar,…

If you are like me when things do not go as exactly as you want them to, you lock yourself inside. And since I am a perfectionist, my whole life I have had the tendency to hide from the world. But I had the luck to meet someone at a conference for women entrepreneurs last…

Yesterday I spent the afternoon in the Tuilerie gardens with a jewelry designer and artist I had met at an event, a charity evening we participated in last week. She had exhibited some pieces of jewelry but most of her stand was taken over by postcards of her drawings and various notebooks of her sketches.…

Yesterday I really impressed myself because I was better than I thought I could be. I had spent the morning stressing myself out because I was going to do something I had not done before. And no matter how many years go by, the fear of not doing things properly, although less often, still inflicts…

June 3, 2017

About Chiara

Chiara has launched a podcast, The Other Half which interviews male leaders and CEOs around the world on the subject of gender equality in their personal and professional lives...Read More